Each year, e-commerce companies predict the new technology shopping trend for the holiday shopping season. In years past, it's been the rise of the iPad/mobile shopper, or the expansion of major spending online beyond just Black Friday or Cyber Monday. This year is not different, with eBay and Amazon weighing in on the big trends…
BANWELL’S subpostmistress and parish council chairman teamed up to cut the ribbon on the village’s new-look Post Office last week. More: continued here
EBay To Expand 'Connected Glass'NewsFactor NetworkIn a push to make money in the physical world, not just online, eBay is expanding its 'connected glass' technology. Connected glass touchable screens track shopper behavior in physical stores. Retailers will pay eBay not only a cut of sales generated … More: continued here
Aggressive activist investors in the privatised postal delivery service believe Royal Mail can boost profits with deeper cuts More: continued here
Scotland on Sunday Royal Mail faces strike action as profits rise expected to pose further …This is MoneyUnion bosses, who are due to meet on Monday, have until Wednesday to decide whether to go ahead with a strike over pay and terms, meaning the action could be announced on the same day that Royal Mail…
Is It Time for eBay to Bite the Bullet?DailyFinanceWhen you think about where eBay has been and everything the company has been able to endure, you could argue the company has done amazingly well. eBay wanted to connect buyers and sellers, but the company wasn't alone. Before the Internet bubble …and more » More: continued here
Toronto's First Post Office has created its own day-of-issue covers for the Rush stamp released by Canada Post earlier this year More: continued here
Stamped into historyAlbany Democrat HeraldGeorge Larson flipped through a book and pulled out a piece of history, attached to an envelope with an ornate scrawl, addressed to Tennessee. The 5-cent stamp, featuring a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, is from 1847, and was one of the first stamps… More: continued here
Families supplement food stamps cuts with supplies from food banks, soup …Imperial Valley PressPatterson, like hundreds of other families, is trying to supplement for the recent 5.5 percent cut to the food stamps program. Oct. 31 marked the end of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which granted a 13.6 percent increase to…
Harry Potter stamps raising an eruptousNWAOnline (subscription)For more than half a century, a committee of cultural heavyweights has met in private, its deliberations kept secret, weighing the faces and images of Americana worthy of gracing U.S. postage stamps. While its rulings have been advisory, they long …and more » More: continued here